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I have just built my first pc. all was going fine. i put in the xp cd and went to start. when it came to the license agreement part the F8 key wouldn't work on my keyboard so the only way out of it was my ESC and saying 'I don't agree'. No when i start the pc again i can't even get into the cd. it starts to run and then stops. The screen is just black with ' - ' on it. Any ideas??
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ok i have used 3 dc's niw and bought a new keyboard (had to as other keys didn't seem to work on last one). Anyway it boots from cd. starts the xp installation but F8 will not work to agree with license agreement. same problem on all 3 cd's. i pro and 2 home. Any ideas?
Do you have a writable hard disk to install to?
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finally got it working. just kept trying different keyboards and cd's and for some reason it worked. thanks